16. What would happen if the abiotic matter
in the environment was not recycled?
How do you know?

Eukaryotic cells are theorized to have evolved from prokaryotes called the endosymbiotic theory. this explains that the most primitive eukaryotic cell engulfed a prokaryotic cell (by the process of phagocytosis) that is capable of cellular respiration and another prokaryotic cell that is capable of photosynthesis. these prokaryotic cells eventually became organelles and these organelles are the mitochondria and the chloroplast